Drug Abuse Booklet Offered To Parents

June 03, 1985

A free booklet intended to help parents recognize signs of drug abuse is being offered by the Cook County state`s attorney`s office.

The booklet, ``Drugs: Illusion/Reality,`` gives detailed information about seven of the most commonly abused drugs--marijuana, cocaine, ``t`s and blues,`` PCP, inhalants, deliriants, LSD and heroin--as well as explanations of Illinois drug laws and advice on how to deal with abuse problems.

More than 40,000 copies were ordered in a second printing after the original printing of 7,000 was exhausted, a spokesman for the prosecutor`s office said. The printing is being funded with money seized during narcotics arrests in which the state`s attorney`s office participated, the spokesman said.